System Restore Points are a great thing to have, but what can you do if you can't even boot the system? Let's say it locks up half-way through boot, even in safe mode. Is there a way to use restore points from the Recovery Console?

System Restore in Windows XP is an extremely useful tool. Sometimes you may need to run it when your computer won't boot to Windows normally or in Safe Mode. You can still run System Restore in this case by doing the following:

Recovery Console has no built-in way to run System Restore. If the Registry is corrupted, it is possible to do a manual restore, to revert the system to a previous Registry version. But the method is far from perfect.

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